For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

America is less safe today than it was the day that Barack Obama became president of the United States.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.